Discover the best tourist attractions of western Ukraine with Maria Zawaski! Maria is a freelance journalist, born on the West of Ukraine, got married to Canada. "Now, when I live abroad, I recommend to all my foreign friends to visit western part of my home country Ukraine. Why the western one - it is because I used to live there, so I am more familiar with that part of the country and I can tell lots of stories about the culture, lifestyle and traditions of Ukrainian West," Maria says

Ukrainian Beauties of Rhythmic Gymnastics

This beautiful girl at the picture is a rhythmic gymnast Anna Bessonova from Ukraine. The biggest achievements of Anna’s sport career are title of world champion of rhythmic gymnastics in Patras, Greece (2007) and bronze medals the Athens Olympics 2004 at the Beijing Olympics 2008. I enjoyed very much watching her fabulous ribbon routine at 2008 Beijing Olympics! It was magnificent combination of grace, virtuosity and female beauty of Anna and it was matched so great with a costume in Ukrainian style and with Ukrainian music of Anna’s routine! As I am a big fan of Ukrainian folklore, I always enjoy Ukrainian styled sport performances, and Anna’s ribbon one (click on the video below) is one of the best I ever saw.

Well, it looks like a fashion in Ukrainian rhythmic gymnastics to make routines in Ukrainian folk style. Here is a video of another famous Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast Natalia Godunko. This is Natalia’s rope routine on the 2008 European Championship in Turin (Italy).

Again, a combination of Ukrainian styled costume, Ukrainian folk tunes and energetic Natalia’s dance with the rope made this performance just fantastic.

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You don’t need visa for travel to Ukraine

If you are citizen of USA, Canada, European Union, Switzerland or Liechtenstein, you don’t need a TOURIST visa for travel to Ukraine. Decree about it was signed in 2005. Tourist visa to Ukraine means that you are going to stay in Ukraine not more than 90 days. So for your short term stay in Ukraine (less than 90 days) you just need to have a travel passport and to buy a ticket, that’s it.
P.S. The same rules work for the citizens of Japan, Andorra, Vatican, Iceland, Monaco, Norway and San Marino. People of these countries don’t need a tourist visa to Ukraine, too.